Ironing machine



H. E. TOL

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UNITED STATE-'s- PATENT olll-*ICEQ4 HERMANUS FRANCISCUS TOL, OF THE HAGK'UE,l NETHERLANDS, ASSIGNOR T0 NAAM:-` LOCDZE.VIENNOTSCHAPy: MACHINEFABRIEK REINEVELDLOF DELFT, N E'JJIHFLRLAIIDS,A A CORPORATION OF THE NETHERLANDS. v i

` :KONING MAcHINE.

Appnauon mea september. s, 1927, serial 1161.217386, and lin the Nether-lanas February 17, 1927.;

The invention relates to ironing machines of the type in which a flat iron is adapted to reciprocate over a working table, said iron being supported by an arm or other support.

ing member travelling along a guide member parallel with the table.

r1`he main object of the invention is to provide improved means for imparting a re ciprocating motion to the iron. To this end according to t-he invention the reciprocating motion is obtained by a motor driven wheel caused to roll valong a longitudinal track connected to the guide memberfor the iron support. lt will be clear that in most cases an electric motor will be used, but'also water, air or any other suitable driving medium may be applied. j

To obtain a reciprocating movement of the iron support one or two running surfaces for the driving wheel may be arranged on the track. If two of such surfaces are arranged, one of them is located above, the

. other below the driving wheel. By bringing the wheel into contact either with the upper.

or with the lower surface, the reciprocating movement lis obtained.

lf only one running` surface is arranged the reciprocating movement may be effected 3o by the reversal of the direction of rotation of themotor or by any suitable reversible driving mechanism betweenthe motor and the wheel. As a drivin wheel either la gearwheel or a friction w eel may be used.

A further object of the inventionis to provide a machine in ,which during the re-l ciprocating motion of the ironthe iron may be lifted from or pressed -to the table` in a convenient way by swinging the guide mem' ac ber for the iron suv port together -withthe wheel track and its riving mechanism about an axis parallel to the working table.

With theseand .other objects in view the invention willbe more fullyA described with' reference to the accompanying drawingin which an ironing machine accord-ing to the invention is illustrated diagrammatically by way of example. l j

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of themachine; 5e Fig. 2 is a section on the line II`II in .of the wheel, the support with the iron 1 wili 43. The wheel 14 is vmounted'upon a second l a vvertical shaft and a number of rolls 7 with a horizontal shaft.

.These rolls run in. or

against angle .iron beams 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12, 65

4formingtogether the guide-frame 5.

For the movement of the support along the/guide frame 5, upon said support an electric-motorjl is mounted, driving, in al manner which will be hereinafter described, a friction wheel 14, caused to run upon the flat outer surface of the lowermost angle In dependence of the direction of rotation l now travel in one or theother direction of the working table.

.The drivlng of the Wheel 14 is effected by means of an openand a crossed belt 15, 16 froma wide pulley 17 on the motorv shaft. These belts run upon .two loose pulleys-{18, mounted each at yone sideof va fast pulley19,` upon a vshaft 20. Thisshaft 2 0 is suspendedk stationary in-an4 arm 21 fromthe support4 shaft 22, bearing in an arm or leverv 23 hinged to ythe shaft 2() and-theend of which vis connected with the support .by meansof 4.a spring 24., In this way theperi'pheiy offac. l with the runningsurface `12. :The rotation j. of the, pulley 19 is transmitted to the shaft i .'22 by the pinion 25 upon the shaft'20 mesh-1 theiwheel '14 is lpressed inv constant contact ingwith the gear-wheel 26 lupon the shaft 22..v l 4vIn order to enable the operatory'te Ithe iron from the table or to press it'upon the table at will, during its movementthe auf entire guide frame 5,' along which the ironsupport travels, is pivotally connected with the frame of the machine. The angleirons 10e 8, 910, 11 and 12 are at the ends interconnected by side pieces 27 and 28, rotatable about pivots 29 of the frame (see Fig. 3). These side pieces are also connected with rods 30, which may be moved by treadles 31, 32.

In pushing the'treadle 31, the shaft 33, rotates in clockwise direction (see Fig. 2), by which movement the lower ends of the rods 30 are pressed (by means of the rods 34) to the left (in Fig. 2) and the iron is pressed upon the table. On the other hand the treadle 32 causes the same shaft 33 to rotate` in anticlockwise direction (by means ofthe rods 35), by which movement the pressure of the iron on the table is decreased or the iron lifted from the table.

In order to change the direction of the movement of the support, the belts 15, 16 are to be shifted alternately from the loose pulleys upon the fast pulley 19. This is effected by means of the belt shifter mechanism illustrated in Fig. 4 of the drawing.

Upon the iron 1 is arranged a vhandle 36 shiftable upon a pin 37 This handle, however, may also be secured to the carnage 2, from which-the iron is suspended. This embodiment, however, has not been shown for the sake of simplicity. The handle 36 is provided with a lever 38 with a bifurcated 46 of which are connected with the support- 3 by means of springs 47. I

- In the member 45 is further provided a slot 48 arranged to engage a pin 49 of the belt shifter 50. Said belt shifter 50 is rotatable about the pivots 51 and displaces lthe belts by means of the two forks 52.

As soon as the handle 36 is released, the springs 47 automatically pull the member 45 intoits middle position, that is to say the position in which the belts run upon the loose pulleys.

On displacing the iron 1 with its carriage 2 in the support 3 transversely to the direcf tion of the table the rod 40 slides through the fork -43 without altering the position of the belt shifter.

Finally upon the shaft 44 a second bifurcated crank 53 is fixed, engaging a pin 54 of a crank 55 pivotally connected with the support 3. As soon as the support has reached one of the ends of the guide frame 5 the lower end of this crank 55 comes into contact with a cam 56 or other part of the frame of the machine. Thereby the crank 55 causes the shaft 44 to rotate and the belt shifter is actuated.

I claim:

l. An ironing machine comprising a support carrying an iron, a guide member along which said support may travel parallel to a working table, a motor mounted on said support, a driving wheel driven by said motor, a longitudinal stationary track parallel to said guidemember and means for bringing the periphery of said driving wheel into contact with a running surface upon said track so as to cause the displacement of the support.

2. An ironing machine comprising an iron-support, a guide member for said support arranged parallel to a working table, a motor mounted on said support, a friction wheel, powertransmitting means', including an open Vand a crossed belt for driving said friction wheel from said motor, 'a stationary track with a single running surface for said friction wheel, resilient means for keeping the periphery of said friction wheel in contact with saidl running surface, a pulley connected to said friction wheel, and means forshifting the open or the crossed belt upon said pulley in order to. obtain a reciprocating motion of the iron support.

3. An ironing machine comprising an iron support with a motor mounted thereon, a pivoted guide member along which said support may travel parallel with a working table, a longitudinal track rigidly connected with said guide member, a wheel driven by said' motor and caused to roll along saidA track, means for pivotally connecting said guiday member with the frame of the machine and means for causing said guide member to swing about the axis of its pivots in a plane transverse to the working table.

4. An ironing machine comprising an iron support, a guide member for said support parallel to a working table, a track parallel to and fixed to said guide member, a shaft on the iron support provided with two loose pulleys and a fast pulley between them, a motor upon said support and provided with a wide ulley for driving said shaft, means for shi tin the belts on said pulleys, a second sha t with a friction wheel fixed thereto, driven from said first shaft by a set of gear wheels and bearing in an arm swingable about said iirstshaft, said arms being connected with the support by springs in such a way that the periphery of the frie- 'tion wheel is kept in contact with the track.

5. An ironing machine comprising an iron, a support therefor, a work'table, a guide parallel to said table, said iron being slidably mounted in said guide, a motor, a wheel fixed to ysaid guide and driven by said motor for reciprocating said iron, a pulley connected to said wheel, power translll) mitting; means including an open belt and a crossed belt for engaging the pulley, a belt shifter guided in said support, and means :for actuating said shifter.

6. An ironing machine as claimed in claim 5, said belt shifter having Spring,` means thereon for automatically disengaging said belts from the pulley.

HERMA-'X'NUS FRANCISCUS TOL.

DISCLAIMER 1,669,458r-J0seph Charles Deviclc, Helena, Mont. ING MACHINES. Patent dated May 15, 1928.

PaLLET AND GRATE FOR SINTER- Dlsclaimer led July 14, 1931, by

the assignee, American Smeltilng and Refining Company.

Hereby enters this disclaimer to claims 1, 2,

[Oficial Gazette August 18, 1931.]

8, 14, and 15 of said Letters Patent. 

